Drowning in post-it notes? Never ready for meetings? Waking up in the middle of the night when you remember what you didn’t do the previous day? GTD to the rescue! Clear your head and know you’re in control of all the ‘stuff’ in your life. Want to know more? Wikipedia has a good summary.

If you feel like the weeks and months are slipping by and want a better way to allocate where you’re spending your time, this is it! I’ve been self-employed for years, and I’ve used this system from the start. It gives me the confidence to take time off, spend time learning and going to conventions, and still spend enough time ‘making a living’ to actually make a living. It’s super-simple and only takes only a few days a year to use.

I met [b]ecker in the fall of 2009 in my first workshop ever. In one of those moments of serendipity, I had Googled ‘wedding photography that doesn’t suck’ when I wanted to know what modern wedding photography looked like, as opposed to the grey-and-dusty-rose, mullet filled images from my ’80’s youth…. I saw, and I was hooked, and a month later I found he was coming to town. Super nice guy.

Usually every Thursday afternoon… replays are inside the [b]school, which is a friendly place to hang out and ask questions of other wedding pros. The twitter / chat room is always fun to follow during the shows, and ask questions to @thebschool

update: If you haven’t heard, the [b] school got a major upgrade / facelift in January, 2011. The site is super-fast now, and has a lot of functionality to make it a way more social experience. Nice!

Isn’t it funny that the most common accidental insult to a photographer with a big fancy camera is “Hey, I bet that thang takes some suh-weeeet pickshures!” (uhmm, ya, the photographer has nothing to do with it…) – but at the same time the gear-bashing that goes on between some Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, and Sony owners can be so intense. They are all cameras, and they ALL take the same pretty pictures.

I just happen to like Pentax; nice glass, weather sealing, and in-body SR. My main camera body is the Pentax K20D, and my backup body is a K10D. But progress is a fickle thing; the K10D, although older, is a bit faster, and has less low ISO noise. So I use both.